Promote equity by promoting a quality education
MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA: A group has asked Manitoba to establish an education equity secretariat to oversee equity officers working in Manitoba schools
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Tag: Education reform
Why can’t Canada also address student debt?
ERIKA SHAKER: America is taking a tentative step to help students. Canada needs to do much more to make post-secondary education affordable for all
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Canada desperately needs school choice
VINCENT GELOSO: Tying funding to parental choices generates strong incentives for schools to provide higher-quality customization
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Memorizing facts still has an important place in schools
MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA: Students learn best when immersed in a content-rich learning environment that builds up their background knowledge
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Violence should never be normalized in school
MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA: Schools must avoid the equally misguided extremes of zero-tolerance policies and permissiveness, setting clear standards of behaviour
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Teachers must stop undermining parental values
MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA: Teachers are hired to educate students, not to indoctrinate them
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Technology should never be the driving force behind education reform
MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA: Students need to spend more time reading books and less time reading screens. Good teaching, not more technology, is the key to improvement
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Time to let principals run our public schools
PETER COWLEY: The primary job of the principal is to improve the results of a single school, not a district
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Teachers must retake charge of their classrooms
MICHEL ZWAAGSTRA: It is the only way to ensure quality education
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Let’s be sure to teach our children critical thinking skills
PETER COWLEY: Teachers need to be encouraged to help their students seek out a variety of points of view when discussing any controversial subject
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We can’t hide our heads in the sand over racism
GERRY CHIDIAC: When countries ignore the mistakes of the past or allow racist policies to flourish in the present, they embrace their own demise ($)
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Handwriting remains a useful skill
MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA: Handwriting is more important than simply signing for a UPS delivery. We are more likely to remember words we write than words we type
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